8-seconds to load suggestions

  • Resolved zorbajesse

    (@zorbajesse)


    9 years ago

    Hi Scott,

    Pretty awesome plugin, thanks for contributing this – only question I have is why it runs slow on my website. I takes about 8 seconds before suggestions are given (so a user is likely to click the “search” button before waiting for suggestions). Otherwise my website loads fairly quickly, e.g. 2-3 seconds so I don’t think it’s general speed issue.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/instant-search-suggest/

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  • Plugin Author Scott (@scottsweb)

    (@scottsweb)

    Can you provide a link to your site?

    The instant search results part of the plugin can be slowed down due to a slow site (it scrapes the front end). The search suggestions may be slowed by a slow database – quite a few queries are run to get the list of suggestions. 8 seconds seems extremely slow. It might be worth contacting your host to see if they can provide any behind the scenes performance insight.

    Thread Starter zorbajesse

    (@zorbajesse)

    Hi Scott, my site is https://or.alanonfinder.org/blog, thanks for the quick response and willingness to look into this…

    Plugin Author Scott (@scottsweb)

    (@scottsweb)

    No problem. Just had a quick look at your site and the requests are a little quicker for me (around 3 seconds).

    Chrome inspector tells me the biggest wait is for your server:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3019972/screenshots/151124-102608.png

    This suggests to me that it is perhaps your database being a little slow (could be PHP but less likely). You are hosting with GoDaddy, if this is a shared hosting package then one database server is often shared between many sites… it would be worth contacting them to see if they can determine the bottleneck. Sometimes it is network related.

    Thread Starter zorbajesse

    (@zorbajesse)

    Hi Scott, thanks so much for your insights and possible queries I can run with… I’ll ask GoDaddy their thoughts. Thanks for the support and Happy Thanksgiving! ??

    Plugin Author Scott (@scottsweb)

    (@scottsweb)

    No problem! enjoy your holidays! ??

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